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There is some concern with a lack of preparation time for the weekend and Andreas Pereira is no longer available after his loan move to Valencia.
Luke Shaw and Ashley Young have had run-outs for the Under-23s, while
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo remain on the sidelines.

"We have to wait and see," the manager told MUTV,
when asked for an update on the team news situation. "There is still
one more training session. Not every player has reported yet, so today
is the first time we are all together.

"I hope that these 15 days
without us being together and working together, doesn't affect us too
much," Mourinho added at his press conference. "I know it will affect
[us]. I know that one thing is a week working with the players and
working tactically and going through every principle of play to be ready
for the weekend match; another thing is to have the players away and
arriving step by step.

"I don't even see them all. Today is the
first time I see them all together, and obviously today is not a day to
work; today is just a day to make the decision and the selection and to
travel to Stoke. But hopefully, we can keep a good level of play."

With
a busy month set to unfold, the manager has revealed he will shuffle
his pack and afford opportunities to all of his first-team players with
challenges also being posed in the Champions League and Carabao Cup.

"The
squad is strong," stated the manager. "The players are ready to play,
the decision to leave people on the bench is hard, the decision to leave
people at home is hard. The fact that now we play every three days, in
relation to that, I think is good because the players will feel now that
they are all involved.

"I think, by the end of September every
player [will have] played, every player [will have] started matches
because it's the normal movement of the squad and that is not a problem
at all - that makes my control of my human resources better, easier and
simple. But the matches are difficult and we have always the risk of
being unable to keep a winning run, which is really difficult to do."

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